After my last few rants I'd like to take a moment
To raise a glass to some of the people who have helped me most in my IT career, Adam, Andrew, James, Jackie, the other Adam and Rob van der Woude.

Adam was contracting when I started my first real IT job and was a fun and patient teacher who always had time for the PFY that I was and helped ignite a real passion and understanding for IT as a service and a vocation.

It was also Adam that first introduced me to advanced scripting and www.robvanderwoude.com where the author has scripts to do almost anything or at least an example that can be adapted.

Andrew is amazing, a giant of both intellect and stature who will fix everything that's wrong with your network and could quote you the RFC document word for word when you ask how it works and then explain it understandably too.

Jackie and the other Adam came as a team later on in my time there and both helped me in different ways, Jackie for helping me recognize my own developing skill-set and Adam for being the voice of reason when I had one of my wilder ideas.

Last but not least is James who was both instrumental to my development from PFY to the professional I ended up as and for helping to curb my spending when he saw me browsing gadget sites and saying "No Bill!" when I was about to buy yet another toy I didn't need!

There should be many more people listed in this rather self indulgent post but I should have gone to bed a while ago so I'll leave off here with a quiet *chink* of my raised glass and a drink to all the good IT people out there, you know who you are!
(bill, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 3:53, 2 replies)

er...
"It was also Adam that first introduced me to advanced scripting and www.robvanderwoudle.com where the author has scripts to do almost anything or at least an example that can be adapted."

...does he have a script to being his site back up?
(dchurch bah, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 12:58, closed)

Oops!
Drunken typing FTL!

URL is now fixed:

www.robvanderwoude.com/
(bill, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 13:46, closed)